Switching to Rawhide, trying pup, surprised no conflicts upgrading

[Scott Talbot]

Jim Cornette wrote:

> After hearing mention of pup now beig available in development on the 
> Fedora-list, I had to try out the program. It gave the same dep error 
> in FC4 as yum specified regarding magma and gulm. (hangovers from 
> switching over from rawhide to FC4)
>
> I decided to switch back over to rawhide and see how it dealt with the 
> devlopment tree. Suprisingly, it installed all package upgrades 
> without any dep not being resolved. All packages installed without 
> problem.
>
> Notes on pup, I like it so far. The information during package install 
> was vague and the only indication of where one was in the installation 
> process was when the process was completed. When upgrading 300 
> packages,  a display regarding where you are in the upgrading would be 
> information worth knowing. I am sure this information will be added 
> later.
>
> Great job with pup and with keeping development deps in check! (i386 
> anyway)
>
> General comments about the file chooser. I like the feature regarding 
> the pulldown for directories. I like the overall look of the file 
> chooser compared to previous versions.
>
> Jim
>
>
    It seems as though we are re-inventing a product that already 
exists, and is much more developed:

http://linux.rasmil.dk/cms/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=1

Scott